Binary Stars

 

Professor Claud Lacy of the Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences and Department of Physics studies the properties of eclipsing binary stars, pairs of stars that orbit each other and pass I front of each other as seen from Earth.  From the motions of binary stars it is possible to determine much about that sizes and masses of the stars that cannot be determined for single stars.

 

Information on Dr. Lacy’s research

 

 

 

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